TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| LIST OF FIGURES |
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| LIST OF TABLES |
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| FOREWORD (103KB PDF) |
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| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (959KB PDF) |
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| 1.0 PURPOSE AND NEED (3.2MB PDF - includes sections 1.1 through 1.5) |
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| 1.1 Goals and Objectives (1.3MB PDF - includes section 1.1) |
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| 1.2 Relevant System Planning Activities (99KB PDF - includes section 1.2) |
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| 1.3 Overview of the Corridor (1.4MB PDF - includes section 1.3) |
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| 1.3.1 Population and Employment |
1-9 |
| 1.3.2 Travel Patterns and Congestion |
1-9 |
| 1.3.3 Existing Transit Conditions |
1-10 |
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| 1.4 Need for Action (88KB PDF - includes section 1.4) |
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| 1.4.1 Specific Transportation Needs in the Corridor |
1-11 |
| 1.4.2 Purposes of the Proposed Action |
1-12 |
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| 1.5 Planning Context (973KB PDF - includes section 1.5) |
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| 1.5.1 Decision Framework |
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| 1.5.2 Selection of the LPIS and Subsequent Refinements |
1-13 |
| 1.5.3 The Role of the EIS in Project Development |
1-15 |
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| 2.0 ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED (50.1MB PDF - includes sections 2.1 through 2.2) |
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| 2.1 Major Investment Study (MIS) Alternatives (7.9MB PDF - includes section 2.1) |
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| 2.1.1 Screening and Selection Process |
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| 2.1.2 Conceptual MIS Alternatives |
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| 2.1.3 Detailed MIS Alternatives |
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| 2.1.4 Rationale for Choosing the Locally Preferred Investment Strategy (LPIS) |
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| 2.1.5 Alignment Modifications Since Completion of the MIS |
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| 2.2 EIS Alternatives (42.9MB PDF - includes section 2.2) |
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| 2.2.1 No-Build Alternative |
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| 2.2.2 Build Alternative (LRT Line to Irving/DFW) |
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| 2.2.3 Alignment |
2-12 |
| 2.2.4 LRT Stations |
2-15 |
| 2.2.5 Capital Costs |
2-25 |
| 2.2.6 Bus Operating Plan |
2-25 |
| 2.2.7 Rail Operating Plan |
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| 2.2.8 Rail Operating Facility |
2-33 |
| 2.2.9 Operations and Maintenance Cost |
2-33 |
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| 3.0 AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT (64.2MB PDF - includes sections 3.1 through 3.14) |
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| 3.1 Land Use (24.3MB PDF - includes section 3.1) |
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| 3.1.1 Regional Summary |
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| 3.1.2 Existing Land Use |
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| 3.1.3 Local Land Use Plans and Policies |
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| 3.1.4 Schools, Community Services, Facilities, and Resources |
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| 3.1.5 Major Activity Centers |
3-12 |
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| 3.2 Socioeconomic Characteristics and Neighborhoods (2.2MB PDF - includes section 3.2) |
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| 3.2.1 Population Dynamics and Demographic Profiles |
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| 3.2.2 Labor Force and Employment Centers |
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| 3.2.3 Neighborhoods |
3-26 |
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| 3.3 Transportation (2.6MB PDF - includes section 3.3) |
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| 3.3.1 Transportation Infrastructure |
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| 3.3.2 Traffic Volumes and Trends |
3-32 |
| 3.3.3 Transit Operations and Ridership |
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| 3.3.4 Movement of Freight |
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| 3.3.5 Non-Motorized Circulation |
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| 3.3.6 Parking |
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| 3.3.7 Regional Transportation Improvement Plans |
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| 3.4 Air Quality (776KB PDF - includes section 3.4) |
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| 3.4.1 Air Quality Standards and Regulatory Setting |
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| 3.4.2 Existing Setting |
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| 3.4.3 Sensitive Receptors |
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| 3.4.4 Transit Air Impact Quality Criteria |
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| 3.5 Noise (652KB PDF - includes section 3.5) |
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| 3.5.1 Transit Noise Criteria |
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| 3.5 2 Existing Noise Conditions |
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| 3.6 Vibration (649KB PDF - includes section 3.6) |
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| 3.6.1 Ground-Borne Vibration Criteria |
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| 3.6.2 Existing Vibration Conditions |
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| 3.7 Visual and Aesthetic Resources (8.4MB PDF - includes section 3.7) |
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| 3.7.1 Overview of the Corridor |
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| 3.7.2 Corridor Assessment Unit Description |
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| 3.8 Historical Resources (103KB PDF - includes section 3.8) |
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| 3.8.1 Applicable Legal and Regulatory Requirements |
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| 3.8.2 Cultural Resources |
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| 3.8.3 Historic Resources |
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| 3.9 Archeological Resources (1.3MB PDF - includes section 3.9) |
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| 3.9.1 Methodology |
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| 3.9.2 Archeological Resources Survey |
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| 3.9.3 Site Potential within Proposed Station Areas |
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| 3.10 Parklands (81KB PDF - includes section 3.10) |
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| 3.10.1 Inventory of Resources |
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| 3.10.2 Parks |
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| 3.11 Ecosystems (18.1MB PDF - includes section 3.11) |
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| 3.11.1 Waters and Wetlands Inventory |
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| 3.11.2 Vegetation Inventory |
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| 3.11.3 Wildlife Inventory |
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| 3.11.4 Protected Species |
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| 3.12 Geology and Soils (4.3MB PDF - includes section 3.12) |
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| 3.12.1 Geology |
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| 3.12.2 Soils |
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| 3.13 Hydrology/Water Quality (1.5MB PDF - includes section 3.13) |
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| 3.13.1 Floodplains |
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| 3.14 Hazardous/Regulated Materials (856KB PDF - includes section 3.14) |
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| 3.14.1 Methodology |
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| 3.14.2 Identified Sites |
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| 4.0 TRANSPORTATON IMPACTS (3.7MB PDF - includes section 4.1 through 4.5) |
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| 4.1 Impacts of Transit Service and Ridership (112KB PDF - includes section 4.1) |
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| 4.1.1 Transit Levels of Service |
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| 4.1.2 Transit Ridership |
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| 4.2 Highway and Roadway Impacts (2.4MB PDF - includes section 4.2) |
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| 4.2.1 Regional Impacts |
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| 4.2.2 Local Impacts |
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| 4.2.3 Transit Station Access |
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| 4.2.4 Pedestrian Safety |
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| 4.2.5 Station Area Mitigation |
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| 4.3 Impacts on Movement of Freight (81KB PDF - includes section 4.3) |
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| 4.3.1 Freight Railroads |
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| 4.3.2 Trucking and Deliveries |
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| 4.3.3 Freight Movement Mitigation |
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| 4.4 Impacts on Non-Motorized Circulation (1.4MB PDF - includes section 4.4) |
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| 4.4.1 Pedestrian Movements |
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| 4.4.2 Bicycles |
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| 4.4.3 Non-Motorized Circulation Mitigation |
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| 4.5 Impacts on Parking (69KB PDF - includes section 4.5) |
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| 5.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES (15.5MB PDF - includes sections 5.1 through 5.21) |
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| 5.1 Land Use and Economics (129KB PDF - includes section 5.1) |
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| 5.1.1 Land Use Impacts |
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| 5.1.2 Economic Impacts |
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| 5.1.3 Land Use Mitigation |
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| 5.2 Acquisitions and Displacement (106KB PDF - includes section 5.2) |
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| 5.2.1 No-Build Alternative |
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| 5.2.2 LRT Alternative |
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| 5.2.3 Acquisition and Displacement Mitigation |
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| 5.3 Air Quality (123KB PDF - includes section 5.3) |
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| 5.3.1 Impact Assessment |
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| 5.3.1.1 Methodology |
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| 5.3.1.2 Project Impacts |
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| 5.3.2 Project Conformity Assessment |
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| 5.3.3 Air Quality Mitigation |
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| 5.4 Noise (109KB PDF - includes section 5.4) |
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| 5.4.1 Noise Impact Assessment |
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| 5.4.2 Noise Impact Mitigation |
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| 5.5 Vibration (86KB PDF - includes section 5.5) |
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| 5.5.1 Ground Vibration Impact Assessment |
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| 5.5.2 Ground-Borne Noise Impact Assessment |
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| 5.5.3 Ground-Borne Vibration Mitigation |
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| 5.6 Visual and Aesthetic Resources (13.6MB PDF - includes section 5.6) |
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| 5.6.1 Methodology |
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| 5.6.2 Impact Assessment |
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| 5.6.3 Mitigation of Impacts to Visual and Aesthetic Resources |
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| 5.7 Ecosystems (127KB PDF - includes section 5.7) |
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| 5.7.1 Waters and Wetlands Impacts |
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| 5.7.2 Long-term Vegetation Impacts |
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| 5.7.3 Wildlife Impacts |
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| 5.7.4 Protected Species |
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| 5.7.5 Aquatic Habitat Impacts |
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| 5.8 Geology and Soils (81KB PDF - includes section 5.8) |
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| 5.9 Hydrology/Water Quality (105KB PDF - includes section 5.9) |
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| 5.9.1 Surface Water Quality |
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| 5.9.2 Groundwater Resources |
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| 5.9.3 Floodplains |
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| 5.10 Hazardous/Regulated Materials (800KB PDF - includes section 5.10) |
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| 5.10.1 ESA Report Summary |
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| 5.10.2 Hazardous/Regulated Materials Mitigation |
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| 5.11 Safety and Security (95KB PDF - includes section 5.11) |
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| 5.11.1 No-Build Alternative |
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| 5.11.2 LRT Alternative |
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| 5.12 Construction Impacts (151KB PDF - includes section 5.12) |
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| 5.12.1 Construction Scenario |
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| 5.12.2 Construction Noise Impacts |
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| 5.12.3 Construction Vibration Impacts |
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| 5.12.4 Disruption of Utilities |
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| 5.12.5 Access and Distribution of Traffic |
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| 5.12.6 Air Quality Impacts |
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| 5.12.7 Disruption of Business Activities |
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| 5.12.8 Water Quality Runoff |
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| 5.12.9 Excavations, Fill Materials, Debris and Spoil |
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| 5.13 Cultural Resources (75KB PDF - includes section 5.13) |
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| 5.13.1 Application of the Criteria of Adverse Effect |
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| 5.13.2 Mitigation Measures |
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| 5.13.3 Formal Finding as to whether Historic Properties may be Affected |
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| 5.13.4 Finding of Effect |
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| 5.13.5 Determination of Adverse Effect |
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| 5.14 Archeological Resources (75KB PDF - includes section 5.14) |
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| 5.14.1 Formal Finding as to Whether Historic Properties May be Affected |
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| 5.14.2 Finding of Effect |
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| 5.14.3 Determination of Adverse Effect |
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| 5.14.4 Mitigation Measures |
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| 5.15 Parklands (81KB PDF - includes section 5.15) |
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| 5.15.1 Evaluation Criteria |
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| 5.15.2 Impact Methodology |
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| 5.15.3 Direct Impacts |
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| 5.15.4 Indirect Impacts |
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| 5.15.5 Parkland Mitigation |
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| 5.16 Environmental Justice (1.0MB PDF - includes section 5.16) |
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| 5.16.1 Overview |
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| 5.16.2 Pubic Participation |
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| 5.16.3 Impact Assessment Methodology |
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| 5.16.4 Impact Assessment |
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| 5.16.5 Mitigation |
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| 5.17 Impacts to Airport Property (105KB PDF - includes section 5.17) |
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| 5.18 List of Required Federal Permits (68KB PDF - includes section 5.18) |
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| 5.19 Relationship Between Short-Term Uses of the Environment and Long-Term Productivity (82KB PDF - includes section 5.19) |
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| 5.20 Irreversible or Irretrievable Commitment of Resources (75KB PDF - includes section 5.20) |
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| 5.21 Cumulative Effects (136KB PDF - includes section 5.21) |
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| 5.21.1 Transportation |
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| 5.21.2 Land Use and Economics |
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| 5.21.3 Acquisitions and Displacement |
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| 5.21.4 Air Quality |
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| 5.21.5 Noise and Vibration |
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| 5.21.6 Visual and Aesthetic Resources |
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| 5.21.7 Ecosystems |
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| 5.21.8 Geology |
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| 5.21.9 Hydrology/Water Quality |
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| 5.21.10 Hazardous/Regulated Materials |
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| 5.21.11 Safety and Security |
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| 5.21.12 Historical and Archeological Resources |
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| 5.21.13 Public Parks and Recreation Areas |
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| 5.21.14 Section 4(f) and Section 6(f) Impacts |
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| 5.21.15 Impacts to Airport Property |
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| 5.21.16 Summary |
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| 6.0 SECTION 4(f) AND SECTION 6(f) EVALUATION (4.1MB PDF - includes sections 6.1 through 6.7) |
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| 6.1 Application of Section 4(f) (89KB PDF - includes section 6.1) |
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| 6.2 Public Parks and Recreation Areas (1.1MB PDF - includes section 6.2) |
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| 6.3 Impacts to Public Parks and Recreational Areas (131KB PDF - includes section 6.3) |
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| 6.3.1 Direct Use |
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| 6.3.2 Temporary Use |
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| 6.3.3 Constructive Use |
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| 6.3.4 Avoidance Alternatives |
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| 6.3.5 Measures to Minimize Harm |
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| 6.3.6 Coordination Consultation |
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| 6.3.7 Recommended Determination Findings for Public Parks and Recreational Areas |
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| 6.4 Historic Sites (75KB PDF - includes section 6.4) |
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| 6.5 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act Section 6(f)(3) Considerations (108KB PDF - includes section 6.5) |
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| 6.5.1 Land and Water Conservation Fund-Assisted Property in Trinity River Greenbelt |
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| 6.5.2 Effects on Land and Water Conservation Fund Assisted Property |
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| 6.5.3 Section 6(f)(3) Conversion Requirements |
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| 6.6 Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 26 (82KB PDF - includes section 6.6) |
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| 6.7 Section 4(f) and 6(f) Correspondence (3.0MB PDF - includes section 6.7) |
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| 7.0 PUBLIC AND AGENCY INVOLVEMENT (108KB PDF - includes sections 7.1 through 7.4) |
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| 7.1 Public Involvement Plan (103KB PDF - includes section 7.1) |
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| 7.1.1 Summary of Public and Agency Participation |
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| 7.2 Agency Coordination (73KB PDF - includes section 7.2) |
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| 7.3 Public and Agency Involvement and the Draft EIS (66KB PDF - includes section 7.3) |
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| 7.4 Organization of the Comments and Responses Received (66KB PDF - includes section 7.4) |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY (18.6MB PDF) |
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| APPENDICES |
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| Appendix A List of Recipients (91KB PDF) |
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| Appendix B List of Preparers (83KB PDF) |
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| Appendix C Plan and Profile Drawings (36MB PDF) |
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| Appendix D Letters of Coordination (35.6MB PDF) |
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| Appendix E FAA Math Modeling Study (25.6MB PDF) |
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